ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*meñak fat, grease; ointment

PMP meñak fat, grease; ointment ⇫ ¶

WMP
Melanau Dalat (Kampung Kekan)	meñiʔ	fatty, oily
Melanau Dalat	meñiʔ	fatty, oily
Bukat	mañak	fat, grease
Ngaju Dayak	meñak	be fat (people, animals, food)
Malagasy	mena-draharaha	an ointment extracted from the fruit of a certain tree and used as a remedy for scabies
	menaka	fat melted down
SHWNG
Buli	mna	tasty, delicious, sweet; fat of animals
Mayá	maꞌna³	grease

POC moñak₂ fat; sweet, tasty ⇫ ¶

OC
Hawaiian	mo-mona	fat; fertile, rich, as soil; fruitful; sweet
Sobei	mano	fat, grease
Wogeo	moña	sweet, tasty, fragrant
Mengen	mon-mona	animal fat
Lakalai	mola	sweet
Tuvaluan	mo-mona	fat, and hence good to eat (of birds, fish, crabs, etc.
Marquesan	mo-mona	fat part of fish
Sinaugoro	mona	fat, grease
Bunama	mona	pudding boiled in clay pot
	ma-mona-na	fat
Pileni	mna-mona	fat, grease
Suau	mo-mona	fat, grease
Anuta	mo-mona	fat, grease; greasy
Rennellese	mona	to be fat, as fish or animals; greasy
Samoan	mo-mona	(of shell-fish) be meaty
Tuamotuan	mo-mona	savory, sweet-tasting
Tongan	mo-mona	fat; only of shellfish and crustaceans
Maori	moo-mona	fat, rich, fertile; appetizing, in good condition; fat, of food; having desire or appetite

POC moña-moñak fat, grease; sweet taste ⇫ ¶

OC
Lakalai	la-mola-mola	the fat of an animal
Tawala	mona-mona	fat, grease
Rapanui	mona-mona	sweet (food)

Reconstructions

PMP	meñak	fat, grease; ointment
POC	moñak₂	fat; sweet, tasty
POC	moña-moñak	fat, grease; sweet taste

Note

Also Long San Kenyah, Long Lamai Penan, Murik, Sarikei Melanau ñak, Long Jegan Berawan ñik, Dalat Melanau ñiʔ, Mukah Melanau ñeəʔ ‘fat, oil’, Long Anap Kenyah, Ngaju Dayak eñak ‘fat, grease’, Bugotu muña ‘sweet’.

Vowel-initial forms in Borneo may be products of back-formation from meñak, which was misinterpreted as containing the stative prefix ma- (> m- before vowel-initial bases). Alternatively, it is possible, as suggested by Mills (1975:782) with regard to *miñak, that the base was originally vowel-initial, and that m- is a fossilized stative prefix. The strong cultural association of animal fat with tastiness is evident in a number of the glosses given here.